Quilting YBR
 

Straight line, cross hatch or SID? If SID should I use a SID foot or walking foot. Thanks for any suggestions.

YBR = Yellow Brick Road?

Of the 3 choices -- straight line, cross hatch, SID -- I find SID to be the most difficult. Second most difficult is cross-hatching, mainly because it's so easy to create a little pucker when you cross a line. Heavy starching of both top and backing helps a lot with that issue. Easiest is straight line quilting. What I really like is using a walking foot and making *curvy* straight lines! They don't have to be even. It's a more modern look and very forgiving; variations are expected! It's quite easy to make gentle curves using a walking foot. Let me see if I can find an example:
http://pixiecupindustries.blogspot.c...ny-monday.html

I did this yesterday! I quilted between the blocks (SITD). Once I had finished I ran two lines between--in some parts these lines were SITD, but others were not. Basically a grid that turned out the size of the smallest square in the blocks. I would have preferred to FMQ,but my skills aren't yet up to it.

Edited to add: Oh, and I used my walking foot. My quilt is flannel top and back, so the walking foot really helped.

Thanks for your responses. I love the curvy lines look, but it looks like it would be hard to do. Angelia, do you have a picture? Would love to see. Thanks.

I love doing the wavy lines with my walking foot. I will post a pic for you when I get home this afternoon. This is one of the easiest ways to quilt a top.

It's easy to do wavy lines with a walking foot. If you try it on a test sandwich, you will find it's actually easier than trying to sew a straight line.

Aside from using a walking foot, starching both top and backing fabric helps a lot to prevent puckers and tucks. Using 505 basting spray also helps, as it keeps all 3 layers in continuous contact with each other. This lessons the ability of the fabrics to fold over and create a tuck.

I'll try to post one later today.

Craftsy has a good class about using a walking foot for quilting and also using the decorative stitches on your machine with the walking foot. So far I'm loving the class and learning a lot. I'm not skilled enough to do FMQ yet.

My new favorite quilting pattern is the wavy line. I have done several quilts with this and I love it. It is the serpentine stitch on my Janome. I use the Acufeed foot, or walking foot.

Here are 2 pictures of one of the wavy line quilts that I finished recently. Just use your walking foot and slowly rotate the quilt right and left a little as it feeds through. Stitch end to end so you don't have any thread ends, and it is super easy and fairly fast, depending upon how far/close together you stitch your wavy lines. [ATTACH=CONFIG]486018[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]486019[/ATTACH]